In the midst of megamergers involving the world’s biggest slot makers and lottery companies, Aristocrat Leisure Ltd. last year cut a deal worth nearly $1.3 billion to acquire Video Gaming Technologies, a Tennessee-based company specializing in Class II gaming.
Most people who knew Peter Mead have some sort of story about him. Maybe Peter helped get a business off the ground with deeply discounted advertising rates or made an introduction that led to collaboration or a business deal. Or maybe he opened the pages of the magazine for someone...
The EILERS-FANTINI Quarterly Slot Survey is designed to track slot machine and related technology purchasing trends on a quarterly basis and is the gaming industry’s largest slot survey in terms of total casinos and slot machines surveyed. This quarter’s report represents the 23rd proprietary...
When it comes to gaming regulation, what starts in Nevada often expands to other jurisdictions. That makes it important for gaming businesses worldwide to watch when Nevada changes how it regulates the industry. At the closing of the 2015 Nevada legislative session, one change worth tracking...
A few months ago, Casino Enterprise Management Publisher Peter Mead visited me at Acres 4.0’s Las Vegas office, saying, “We’ve got to do something. The casino business isn’t growing. Casinos aren’t buying enough games and systems from suppliers and so suppliers aren’t buying enough...
Welcome to the June 2015 edition of the Union Gaming Analytics (UGA) Index of Gaming Operators. The UGA Index for the period ending June 30, 2015, was down 8.40 percent sequentially to 92.60 from 101.09 at May 31, 2015. As an illustrative example, if an investor bought $100,000 of the...
The AGEM Index fell to 192.28 in June 2015, which represents a decline of 4.70 points (-2.4 percent) compared with the prior month. The latest performance represents the second consecutive month-to-month decline after the composite index fell 3.70 points (-1.8 percent) in May 2015...
In our September 2014 CEM article we described the role of business intelligence and how information intelligence has become a central part of the ability of the gaming organization today: This traditional business intelligence was the domain of the analyst and the thinker...
A couple weeks before Peter died, I was one of a handful of people who received an email from him with the subject line Lycos Ring. Peter had read a story about the faded search engine’s move into the realm of wearable technology with its Lycos Ring and Lycos Band. “Hey guys... Did you see the...
“The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world.”—Charles Malik. That saying has and still holds very true for Indian gaming. There is no question that the success of Indian country is due in large part to the great women of Indian gaming. From the humble beginnings of our bingo halls to...
